Foster Sq signal box

Showing the size of the station shortly before closure

Foster Sq station

Another view shortly before closure. It acted as a goods station 

after the closure and demolition of the L&Y goods depot at Bridge

Street next to the old Exchange station. It is worth noting that both

stations were built by preceding members of the LMS, namely the 

Lancashire and Yorkshire (Exchange) and the Midland (Foster Sq)

Bradford Foster Sq station

This was roughly the site of the original Bradford Leeds railway terminus

Named simply Bradford Market St in those days, it was of course a much 

smaller station. The area where it was built was known as Little Bermondsey

Bradford LMS Goods How we rang the changes

The site of the main warehouse is now the Bradford Hilton Hotel

The Offices in the near right of the picture the Queens Public house

Of course aspersions to the Lancs and Yorks successor being the 

Great Northern Railway is of course wholly mistaken as it was 

The LMS which succeeded the L&Y in 1924. To me Bradford 

had always been an LMS town. Our neighbour Leeds hosted 

much of the Great Northern. Yes I know Hammerton St loco 

sheds were GN however Low Moor and Manningham were

 LMS and more particularly MIDLAND

Manningham station and loco sheds

Here Manningham station with the loco sheds to the right.

The coming of diesels made the sheds redundant and is

now a large modern industrial area which includes Frizinghall

Model Railways. So there is still a railway presence of sorts

Bradford Exchange

The area below shows where massive excavations in the 

1850's lead the way for the new Exchange Station. Before

then the railways had to pass through a series of tunnels 

on the approach to the terminus. Always thick with smoke

and most unhealthy for crews, particularly those on shunting

and empty stock workings. The area cleared had some

of the worst slums of the nineteenth century. Known as 

Broomfields as is still the area to the east of the retaining 

wall

Shipley and Shipley Windhil stations

Shipley from Manningham facing North

I well rememeber this long back shunt from Shipley Manningham line

Manningham Station

In it's heyday at the turn of the last century

Where has it all gone

Did we loose it or give it away or more likely just not appreciate it